Equity in Roman Law: Lectures Delivered in the University of London, at the Request of the Faculty of Laws

by William Warwick Buckland

Excerpt from Equity in Roman Lectures Delivered in the University of London, at the Request of the Faculty of Laws(girard, Manuel, The same state of things arises in those cases in which the Praetor, in his Edict, declares that he will give a certain actio or exceptio, causa cognita. Here, though the grant of the action or defence is entirely in the hands of the Praetor, it is not he, but the ordinary index, who presides over the resulting proceedings. The equitable nature of the relief has nothing to do with that of the ultimate tribunal. There is no such thing as an Equity Court.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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First published August 12, 2015

About the author

William Warwick Buckland, M.A., LL.D. (1859-1946) was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945.

William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Caius College, Cambridge, in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos. Elected a Fellow of Caius, he remained a Cambridge academic for the remainder of his life. In 1920 he became a Fellow of the British Academy. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh (1922), Harvard (1929), Lyon, Louvain and Paris. Among his best-known works on Roman Law is A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian, which became a standard text.